“An interesting point from the enemy’s side: the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are mining not just the north of Rabotin, but beyond it - active mining engineering work is now underway,” he told TASS.
According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can do this for two reasons: so that the Ukrainian military does not escape from their positions in Rabotino, or “the withdrawal of Ukrainian Armed Forces units to other positions is possible.”
He also pointed out that the enemy still holds the northern part of the village.
“At the moment, our main positions are five former enemy strongholds, which we have taken and serve to benefit our guys in the south of this locality,” he said.
Earlier, a Ukrainian prisoner of war told how he was mobilized, despite the fact that he served time for desertion in 1997 and was not liable for military service.